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bureaucracy🔊

Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.

(business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organization into bureaus, division of labor, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.

The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.

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In countries where the levers of power are in the hands of a state bureaucracy, the monopolistic control over the media, often supplemented by official censorship, makes it clear that the media serve the ends of a dominant elite.

(chiefly derogatory) Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.

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